Lake Sailing

On Saturday, Lo Lo, Derek and I met Geoff at his boat, Solana and went out for a day of sailing. The plan was to make it out to Lake Washington, but after the University Bridge, Geoff was having trouble with his battery bank (he's got an electric motor) and we decided to turn around and just sail around Lake Union.

We were dog-sitting this weekend, so we decided to take the dog along. He's an enormous Greyhound that looks like Santa's Little Helper. He's also not usually very happy about being out of his comfort zone: in his living room, between a woman's legs (nothing sexual, he just likes women more than men and is afraid of most things and has a brain the size of a walnut and is probably a little autistic).

For most of the day, we ended up doing a couple of laps around lake union with 10-20 knot winds, got to fly the spinnaker a couple times, learned a bunch more about sailing.

We grilled some shrimp skewers, watched some kids in El Toros learning to sail, got buzzed by numerous float planes and I managed to get sunburn on my nose and eyeballs.

I'm desperately trying to find the time to go out on our boat while we have this window of nice weather, but it's hard to coordinate our schedules to have some daylight to go sail our boat.


Definitely loving the experience of sailing. Stoked we got a boat. And stoked we have lots of great friends to go sailing with.

Lo lo at the tiller.

See all the photos on flickr.